English Congregation

Common Core was last updated in 2013-14 school year. It is a voluntary program that currently involves 45 states, the district of Columbia, four territories, and the Department of Defense Education Activity. It covers subjects areas of K-12 english, language arts, and mathematics. Prior to CCSS the states had their own standards that where different from each other. With one standard for the majority of the country it allows for better collaboration for the development of curriculum material. It…

In “Se Habla Espanol” the author, executive communication’s director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Tanya Maria Barrientos, explains the struggles of a Latina who does not speak Spanish fluently. Barrientos has two main audiences who she is addressing. The first audience is mainstream America, such as her classmates and other people born in America that she desired to fit in with. She is trying to help them gain a better cultural understanding by exposing them to her personal views.…

My English. Many newspapers write about how immigrants learn new language, and what challenges they face. Everyone is different which means that everyone has a different learning style. Some people learn best by reading/writing. Also, some people are hands on learning which means practicing the language. Two years ago when I first came to the USA, I learned English by having conversations with my coworkers, and my friends, through different internet sites, and going to Northern…

The article "How School and District Leaders Support Classroom Teachers’ Work With English Language Learners as first published on June 24, 2013, and written by Ana M. Elfers a Research Assistant Professor at UW College of Education and is known for her Qualitative Research Methods. Tom Stritikus is a Deputy Director of K-12 Education at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The purpose of the study is to examine the various ways schools and district leaders create systems of support for…

bilingual education, only to discover that it is less effective at teaching English than English immersion programs are.” It means that even though the United States fund bilingual education with a tremendous amount of money, the outcome is still not as effective as English immersion programs. In other words, instead of providing bilingual education or environment, it is better for the US government to choose to English as the first language to save billions.…

In the intro of “The Canterbury Tales” the setting and mood of the town of Canterbury is set. The time period is around spring, I can identify this from lines 1-4 in the introduction. It states that rain in April ended the drought in March,and “generated” the flowers. These lines sound like a modern nursery rhyme “ April showers, bring May flowers”. Englishmen that traveled to Canterbury can be described as loyal or pure at heart. I believe that this foreshadows the personalities of the…

literary works and their applications, English colloquial languages undeniably create a socioeconomic divide in the United States and in the pursuit of the American Dream. Throughout America, several derivatives of English are spoken, but because these sub-languages are not standard or articulate English, they are viewed as subordinate, subpar, sub-American. To be articulate, as poet and activist Jamila Lyiscott explained in her spoken word essay “3 Ways to Speak English,” is to have an…

high-school teachers believe that their instruction is aligned with college instructors’ viewpoints on college readiness, but they are not because college instructors found students starting college still struggle in core subjects such as math and English. These issues show the gaps that fall between Common Core standards and higher learning for students’…

Puritans have been persecuted for accusing their King of failing to cleanse the Church of Catholic rituals, and were hounded as radicals for their forbear of the Protestant reform. The origins of Puritanism are to be found in the early stages of the English Reformation. The name “Puritans” was a term of disrespect allocated to the movement by its opponents. Although the nickname first appeared in the 1560s,…

feels the need to change the way it speak to sound different from the regions around them. This results in slowly changing words, pronunciations, and fundamentals of the language to suit what this region defines as “proper English.” Every region believes that they speak English “correctly,” while every region that differs is considered “wrong.” Code-switching is very common in spoken language. I will say that I believe changing…